When I last visited the Chicago Artists’ Coalition, in April, Erik Peterson was planning to hang work linking the gallery’s West Loop neighborhood to its fast-vanishing economic base: meatpacking is giving way to haute art spaces and even hauter restaurants. Now Peterson is back again, with the same concerns. But this time he’s got allies. “Locality,” in which he shares billing with artists Barbara Blacharczyk, Angela Davis Fegan, Alexandra Lee, and curator Tempestt Hazel, makes Fulton Market its exclusive muse. A map pinpoints specific locations—like Economy Packing and Variety Meat Company—that inspired the art. Lee’s video installation Lux Aeterna juxtaposes laborers of the old Fulton Market with rapid-fire shots of Hillary Clinton in her role as America’s chief diplomat—commentary, perhaps, on globalization.
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